| Description |
1 online resource (277 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Altered values: searching for a new collecting -- 2 Collections and collecting -- 3 Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa -- 4 The future of collecting: lessons from the past -- 5 The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting -- 6 The cartographies of collecting -- 7 From curio to cultural document -- 8 Contemporary popular collecting -- 9 Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion -- 10 Collecting in time of war -- 11 The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa -- 12 Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups -- 13 All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils -- 14 What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland -- 15 Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork -- 16 Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique -- 17 Samdok: tools to make the world visible -- 18 Professionalising collecting -- 19 Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums -- 20 Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings -- 21 Ranking collections -- 22 Deaccessioning as a collections management tool -- 23 Collecting live performance -- 24 Redefining collecting -- Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Museums -- Acquisitions -- Congresses
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Museums -- Acquisitions
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351916431 |
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1351916432 |
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